Hexguardian news & patch notes

Heya Guardians!

New Content: The Altar and Heroes

Heroes Arise!

• Core skills so powerful, they're basically sacrilegious! These recharge automatically over time and can be cast at your command.
• Three additional skills that can be learnt, because even heroes need education! These enhance your hero's abilities in conjunction with their core skill.
• Unrestricted movement anywhere on the map (unless there's a river, because these gods never learnt how to swim)
• Attack power that grows with each day, proving that practice makes perfect, even in heaven!

The Sacred Roster

• Lyra, the Swiftarrow, an archer whose Rain of Arrows will have her enemies praying for cover!
  • Core Skill: Rain of Arrows deals a wide AoE of physical damage.
  • Additional skills can enhance arrow frequency and unleash more devastating volleys after casting. It's raining cats and arrows!
• Ragnar, the Bloodfury, a fierce warrior who is a bit of a zealot.
  • Core Skill: Frenzied Rage allows Ragnar to sacrifice his own blood to enter a berserker state, gaining buffs and dealing area damage effects. Talk about a blood donation!
• Isolde, the Lightbringer, a knight equipped with SPF1000 against evil.
  • Core Skill: Holy Shield creates a large magical barrier that protects and empowers all allied units within its range. Group hugs and smiting at three o'clock, anyone?
• Kael, the Wintermage, a mage bringing you your Winter Wonderland fantasies!
  • Core Skill: Frost Domain: With this treasure, I summon... no wait, wrong universe! Frost Domain creates a powerful ice field on the map. Within this field, Kael's basic attacks hit multiple targets and freeze enemies instantly.
  • Additional skills can cause Frost Domain to further boost allied units within its range.

• Increased the duration and damage of lightning triggered by the Oracle.
• Reduced the base output of the Quarry.
• Reduced the chance of Stonehenge dropping stone upon enemy death.

New map: Lava Land

New towers: Rolling Log Tower & Shuriken Tower

New Economic Building: Quarry

New Wonders: Stonehenge and Oracle

Inferno Difficulty

Balance Adjustments

Preview of things to come

• Fixed the issue where the number of stones and stars from the previous game would still be displayed when restarting the game.
• Fixed the issue where the buildable status of buildings with the same name was not updated after selling a building.
• Fixed the issue where a new, smaller number of days in Roguelike Challenges would overwrite the previous larger number of days record.

• Farthest from the castle
• Nearest to the castle
• Farthest from self
• Nearest to self
• Not in an abnormal status that it can inflict (e.g., an Ice Tower can choose to target enemies not in a slowed state)

• Farthest from the castle
• Nearest to the castle
• Farthest from self
• Nearest to self
• Not in an abnormal status that it can inflict (e.g., an Ice Tower can choose to target enemies not in a slowed state)

• Reduced the range of the Conduct reaction and modified its effects: Now the Conduct reaction can only conduct to a maximum of 5 other enemies. We found that in the later stages of the game, the Conduct reaction could stun large groups of enemies, leading to unlimited enemy stacking and causing game lag. Additionally, the overwhelming crowd control effect of the Conduct reaction made it almost the only viable choice for reaching higher days in crazy levels, which contradicts our goal of promoting diverse strategies. Therefore, we have limited the maximum effect of the Conduct reaction.
• Adjusted the skills that can be acquired by Water Towers and Thunder Towers: For the same reasons, we have reduced the number of skills that increase attack range and attack speed for Water Towers and Thunder Towers, further limiting the effect of the Conduct reaction.
• Reduced the rate of increase in enemy HP and armor from day 20 onwards in all levels. The rapid growth in enemy HP and armor after day 20 made "damage"-type defensive measures too weak compared to "control"-type defensive measures. Therefore, we have slowed down the rate of increase in enemy HP and armor, hoping that "damage"-type defenses will be more effective in the later stages of the game.
• Reduced the range of the Toxical Explosion reaction: Due to the stacking effect of the Toxical Explosion reaction, it could cause excessively powerful damage when enemies were densely packed.
• Increased the damage of all spells in the early stages of the game but reduced their damage in the later stages: Because the damage of spells automatically increased with the number of days, they were relatively weak in the early stages and too strong in the later stages. Thus, we have made this adjustment.
• We have strengthened the towers, units, and spells that were generally considered weaker based on feedback from the balance survey:
• Increased the attack power of Cannon Towers, Light Towers, and Dark Towers
• Increased the attack speed of all mages and the healing speed of priests
• Increased the maximum HP of melee units
• Increased the duration of Heal and Encourage